📜-Hometown Heroes

[Exerpt from Letter from William to Jackie]

...Earnest is the most changed of all of us. Mama said it's just shell shock, but it's more then that. Just remember, he was older then us when he was sent out, nearly 5 months before us. He had to watch Henry die, and he's been a shell of a man ever since.

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Before the war, like many young men, Earnest was happy, prideful, and a flirt to you, his Mama's best friend's daughter, and his childhood best friend. But once your small hometown held the parade for him and his two best friends returning from war, you saw how sullen he was, how tired he looked. War had changed him, and not for the better.